Brian's Locker

Making an important investment in the mission of Brian Moorman’s P.U.N.T. Foundation to help local families fighting childhood cancer, New Era has become the exclusive sponsor of the Brian’s Locker program. Their $25,000 commitment will allow the program to flourish and expand its impact beyond Roswell Park Cancer Institute to also serve families being treated at Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo.

Since 2004, Brian’s Locker has served as a mechanism to provide families in pediatric cancer treatment with gas cards, grocery cards and other essential items to help make the patients’ hospital stay as comfortable as possible. The sole locker has previously resided in the pediatric waiting room at Roswell but the New Era partnership has enabled the creation of an additional locker for the oncology floor of Children’s Hospital, where children under the age of six seek treatment. Both lockers will serve as vehicles of distribution for gas, grocery and restaurant cards, toiletry bags and entertainment tickets to improve the quality of life for families in treatment. New Era has also provided iPad minis, P.U.N.T. Foundation and pediatric cancer awareness caps and additional resources which will be designated to families based on specific needs at both hospitals.

“New Era’s tremendous partnership for our Locker program will provide direct, invaluable support to local families who are in the midst of an incomprehensibly difficult passage,” said Foundation founder and NFL punter Brian Moorman. “We are deeply grateful for New Era’s generous investment and for empowering us to ‘be there’ for even more kids. Many households lose an income after a child is diagnosed since one parent will stop working to be with their child during treatment; they also often make several trips each week to the hospital, some coming from great distances. We continually see how meaningful the assistance offered through our Locker program has been to families.”